Friday, November 20, 2009

Each year I make a calendar and offer it for sale, and this year my calendar features the paintings I created for my thesis. On my DeviantART account, I posted a calendar sale where if you order a calendar directly through me, I will sign it and include a small pen drawing of your choice. The calendar is also $5 cheaper than if you buy it directly through DeviantART, so it's a better deal all around.

Here are two of the pen drawings that were requested by people who ordered a calendar:

Snow leopard/peregrine falcon gryphon:

Osprey - I was going for an Audubon-esque, moment of suspension pose. If I could do it over, I would have given it more of an angle (and fixed that beak!) but it's serves its purpose as a simple pen sketch, and I'm sure the person it's meant for will like it all the same:

After some anatomical frustration, I decided to just get back to basics and do a night of figure studies and gestures. Here's a page of simple figures, references from stock photos:

Poses referenced from the following stock photographers:Top left - Chamberstock on DeviantARTTop right, bottom left - Torino Stock on DeviantARTBottom right - Mjranum Stock on DeviantART

I truly wish I had access to live models; drawing the figure from photographs is never the same as having a real person right there. Luckily, I have a friend who has volunteered to pose, and we're playing with the idea of starting up a figure drawing group.

About Me

I'm an illustrator based in Connecticut with an M.F.A. in illustration from the Savannah College of Art and Design - Atlanta. I love fantasy illustration, watercolor, and combining the two to create things that should exist, but don't!

What's a 'featherseed'? A bird, of course! Feathers grow on birds, therefore birds are seeds for feathers! I also felt it was a fitting name for a journal that shows the process of my work, since birds are so prominent in my art. Each sketch is a seed, in a way.